Celia Genishi

Celia S. Genishi is Professor Emerita of Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also served as chair of the Department of Curriculum and Teaching and co-coordinator of the Early Childhood Education program. A former secondary Spanish and preschool teacher, she is known for her work in early childhood education, childhood bilingualism, classroom language, qualitative research, and teacher collaboration. She previously studied at Barnard College, Harvard University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Genishi is co-author, with Anne Haas Dyson, of Children, Language, and Literacy: Diverse Learners in Diverse Times. She also served as a series editor for the Language and Literacy Series, which includes Reading the Visual: An Introduction to Teaching Multimodal Literacy.